as in almighty
formal
knowing everything; having unlimited understanding or knowledge
an omniscient deity The novel has an omniscient narrator.
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Recent Examples of omniscient
In our world there is no such thing as an omniscient narrator.
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Adam Verner
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
So, the narrative that AI is omniscient and omnipotent at displacing labor works well to convince investors to pay inflated valuation premiums for companies that expend huge resources on building data centers and hiring AI engineers and data scientists.
—Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
Bejar's smoky alto is our anchor, sounding like an omniscient ghost serenading us in a liminal space.
—Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 13 July 2025
Hong usually shoots his characters with something of an objective, omniscient perspective.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Feb. 2025
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Adam Verner
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
So, the narrative that AI is omniscient and omnipotent at displacing labor works well to convince investors to pay inflated valuation premiums for companies that expend huge resources on building data centers and hiring AI engineers and data scientists.
—Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
Bejar's smoky alto is our anchor, sounding like an omniscient ghost serenading us in a liminal space.
—Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 13 July 2025
Hong usually shoots his characters with something of an objective, omniscient perspective.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for omniscient
Adjective
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Only a sucker would think the curtain close of the Eras Tour marked the end of Swift’s almighty reign in the pop sphere.—
Maya Georgi,
Rolling Stone,
3 Oct. 2025
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My initial plan was to serve as Carnage’s carnival barker by jumping out and loudly announcing his almighty presence.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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They have been denounced as lecherous predators and as omnipotent conspirators, as arch-Bolsheviks and arch-capitalists.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Today, those who build these nearly omnipotent algorithms are still possessed of a human conscience.—
Tyler Johnson,
Mercury News,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Similarly, corporations in the real world can be viewed as immortal, nonbiological organisms driven to grow, consume resources, and protect themselves.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Sep. 2025
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The options were powerful, immortal, stranger or wanderer.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The crowd ate it up — to the point where the drag artists didn’t feel like opening acts, but like supreme rockstars.—
Cherry Jaymes,
Them.,
25 Sep. 2025
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Jonathan Fahey, former acting ICE director, said going after federal police would violate the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause because federal law is supreme.—
Anna Giaritelli,
The Washington Examiner,
24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Away from the pitch, Beckenbauer was also an old-school captain — and by ‘old-school’, this means a relic from the days when the captain was responsible for selection and tactics, before the football manager had become all-powerful.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
14 Sep. 2025
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But while Orwell envisioned this happening through a repressive, all-powerful state, Huxley imagined something more insidious: people surrendering their freedom willingly, lulled into obedience by pleasure and distraction.—
Time,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The Pope was Polish, so maybe there was a bit of divine intervention with how Dudek performed.—
James Pearce,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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The timing of this movie feels divine.—
Matthew Jacobs,
Vulture,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Omniscient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/omniscient. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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